Covid 2 days after booster

[jwpetal]

I had my booster on a Monday and tested positive with covid 2 days later. I had the moderna booster. I can't find information about what this can do to a person but 17 days later I still feel unwell. Anyone have any information on what this does to a person? Just curious as I am normally very resilient.

I know loads of people who were really knocked for six by Covid. It isn't that is unusual. You don't say when you developed symptoms, but it sounds like you picked it up a day or two before the booster - or possibly while queuing for it! Although it won't be effective straightaway, so I guess it could have been any time.

It sounds like you're hinting at some connection between having the booster and then being infected by an incredibly prevalent virus at around about the same time, but perhaps I'm over-interpreting.

Oh, I am in fact totally misreading it! 😳 But I know a lot of people - a whole range, some usually very fit and well, some less so - who got hit hard by Covid. There's a massive variation in how it affects people. I think it's just coincidence that you happened to pick it up around the time of your jab.

It is unlikely your booster has given you any extra protection in such a short period of time, but your initial doses might have made it less serious for you than it could have been.

Post viral fatigue with covid can last weeks, hope you feel better soon.

I tested positive three days after my booster (caught it from my son). I had cold like symptoms, different to the flu like symptoms I had had just after my booster. But I did feel tired for at least three weeks and Have picked up a cold and cough since then. I felt like my system took a bit of a beating, and I really could have done without the two in close succession. On the plus side, it was nowhere near as bad as my bout of unvaccinated Covid in 2020, which was a good month of fatigue and a six week cough.

I am not thinking there is a connection between the booster and getting covid. Just trying to understand how the body reacts when both hit the system at the same time. I know the vaccine takes about 14 days so that means I think, that my immune system is working doubly hard with immune reaction and the actual virus. I know I am not the only person that this has happened to but couldn't find any information about the two together.

I was about to start a thread asking the same. My son is having his second dose soon, but I’m worried it’s not a great time with such a high rate of covid about. I wondered if your body having to deal with the reaction to the vaccine (not side effects, but the intended reaction to build immunity) and the reaction to fighting off the virus at the same time might make you much more ill than covid alone. Would be good to hear from a few more people who have had this.

That is what iam wondering also

A collegue tested positive earlier ( before delta) and a couple of days after her first vaccine. She was unwell for a few days but back in work after the ten. She had a cough for a little longer though.

Everyone seems to react differently to covid.